[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

Philipp von Weitershausen philipp at weitershausen.de
Mon Mar 6 19:16:30 EST 2006


Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2006-3-5 18:17 +0100:
> 
>>...
>>Looking at your examples (especially the long one), I find the ZConfig
>>version much easier to read.
> 
> 
> While ZConfig allows you the describe related material together
> and without indirections, the ConfigParser format forces you
> to introduce indirections and to spread related definitions
> over a longer area.

Yes, this was my concern with it, too. Though the decouple spelling
obviously also has advantages as you can configure a server once and
then just refer to this server configuration from several instance
configuration.

Philipp


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